As an authorised foodstuffs agent. This is 2013 foodstuffs supplycontract project from African Development Humanitarian Councilhttp://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?account_type=1&red=http://www.adhcouncil.org.The foodstuffs is for the sustenance of refugees of war affectedcountries, Like Côte d'Ivoire, Somalia, Sudan, Liberia and others.

Payment has been made to be 100% full payment by Telegraphic swiftTransfer (T/T) after signing of the contract agreement with thecontract awarding board of directors in Mali.

If your Company can supply any of these products please reply me, thenI will help you to get the contract through my office. You willreceive the complete payment of the contract value before shippingyour goods. Port of destination is TOGO LOME Sea Port.

Best Regards,

Mr. CamaraTel..........+223 71878900Skype......amadu.camara36

The email solicits replies to camaraamadu9@gmail.com and was sent to a spam trap. The "African Development Humanitarian Council" does not exist (although there are many agencies with similar names) and the domain adhcouncil.org was registered in April with fake WHOIS details. Of course, the spammer might not be associated with the domain name, but in any case the whole lot is some sort of scam and should be avoided.

It's hard to say exactly what the scam is. Probably some sort of advanced fee fraud, but in any case you should ignore this particular solicitation.

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Then I decided to ask Dr.Google about the "proposed deal", a lo & behold, I find your blog!

These scammers are still using an identical story, but now with a new email address ...

the final paragraph (of their scam) runs like this:

"If your Company can supply any of these products please reply me,then I will help you to get the contract through my office. You willreceive the complete payment of the contract value before shippingyour goods. Port of destination is TOGO LOME Sea Port.

Yesterday, i got a discuss with skype name: mamado.fulldu with same content. After checked domaind in website, i can't find this web http://www.adhcouncil.org so i find by name and find this blog with more useful information. Until now, i quoted price to him but haven't got reply from him. I asked his email but he still hasn't given me.

This is content which sent by him in my skype

Dear Sir,

African Development Humanitarian Council http://www.adhcouncil.org. is ready to purchase the listed bellow foodstuffs.

1.Rice 2. Beans 3. Milk 4. Sugar 5. Vegetable Oil 6. Onion

7. Cement

As an authorised foodstuffs agent. This is 2013 foodstuffs supply contract project from African Development Humanitarian Council http://www.adhcouncil.org. The foodstuffs is for the sustainance of refugees of war affected countries, Like Côte d'Ivoire, Somalia, Sudan, Liberia and others.

Payment has been made to be 100% full payment by Telegraphic swift Transfer (T/T) after signing of the contract agreement with the contract awarding board of directors in Mali.

If your Company can supply any of these products please reply me, then I will help you to get the contract through my office. You will receive the complete payment of the contract value before shipping your goods. Port of destination is TOGO LOME Sea Port.

I got this one, taking a product from my website. It did seem strange that they did not know what the product was used for and it all went a little too smoothly. This is one of the emails in our correspondence.

Your company will confirm the quantity to be supply per monthlyinstalmental order considering your productive power , this will beconfirm in your original proforma invoice for the approval of the HADCCommission, till the end of this 1 year contract.

This contract is for under 1year contract supply and partial shipmentis allowed doing the contract.

The payment terms is 100%T/T of the total contract value after signingthe contract with the HADC .

Thanks while we are waiting to receieve your prompt and possitive respondurgently.

Thanks & Best Regards.Ahmed Izaka

This looks very similar to the food scam in this blog and the ship to was a hotel near the airport. See below

Send your Original Proforma Invoice to HADC Commission with thefollowing address and Also send us a copy for our record.

Your company will confirm the quantity to be supply per monthlyinstalmental order considering your productive power , this will beconfirm in your original proforma invoice for the approval of the HADCCommission, till the end of this 1 year contract.

This contract is for under 1year contract supply and partial shipmentis allowed doing the contract.

The payment terms is 100%T/T of the total contract value after signingthe contract with the HADC .

Thanks while we are waiting to receieve your prompt and possitive respondurgently.

I goto this one today, from yesterday i quoted 30000tones of vegetable oil to a mr BJ jefery in Togo.If theres anyone who can help us track done and eliminate these cyber thieves we would be gladful.Dear Mr Samu,

Good-news,

I just been informed about 20munits ago by my contact at the HADC office that your price has been approved as the best among others and my contact has confirmed to me that your company is standing in good position to win the contract and he said that they may renew the contract again to your company after this present one .

Regarding the tender invitation the HADC refuses to issue it to a local agents like us so they advised me to inform you to contact their office directly for them to issue your the tender invitation.

So please kindly contact HADC office immediately via e-mail below and ask them to issue you the Contract Tender Invitation to help you to pay your tender bid registration fee and to know the necessary tender documents in which you will prepare and submit them to their office table for approval and award of the contract to your company.

IMPORTANT;Please also call the HADC Projects Executive Director Eng. Mobutu Ezera +228-98838766 immediately you sent mail to their office to help him advise their secretary to attend to you urgent.

Please note that the HADC will invite you to Togo as soon as the contract is awarded to your company for contract signing and also payment release order and please upon your receive of the contract payment from the HADC to your bank account i will like to visit you in your own country to collect my commission from you and for us to celebrate our success together with you and your family also to disuse more business issues.

Finally as for the company you told me about, i tried to call them but the line was not clear but i will go to the address you gave me and know what went wrong and also if the contract with them and the company it self is real.

Thank you for your message. As i informed you in my last emailyesterday, i just come back to the AHC office and i have theinformation on the registration fee and the tender application form toyou. So, you must complete it and send me a copy for the submission tothe AHC office.

Please note that the registration fees of your company will cost 2650Euro only. These costs must be sent to the bank address below with acopy of your passport and 2 photo passport image to submit them in AHCoffice for authentication of your file.

Below the account information from our accountant manager for makingthe payment of the register fee.

On 23/12/2014, Apoorva Shrivastava wrote:Kindly share the details for registering with AHC office. We can do theregistration as required by them.

Thanks.

Apoorva Shrivastava

On Dec 23, 2014, at 9:56 AM, samip shalin wrote:

Dear Mr. Apoorva Shrivastava,

I inform you by this mail that my conversation with the chairman ofAHC was very successful. They accepted your condition to send you theLC paper but you must register first your company in AHC office tohave this privilege. Note that i do my best today to have thisinformation to you. So let me know your position before i will movedirectly in AHC office to confirm them your acceptance to pay yourcompany register fee.

Kindly view attached the contract tender invitation for the supply of 30.000 Metric Tons of Rice to AFFHA.And print out the contract application form , filled/stamp and return it back to this office.

http://www.affha.org/application.pdf

Thereby, this is how you will prepare your official proposal tender for the contract, I want to point it out that you should arrange the below documents and information as listed on the attached tender invitation and send it to us via E-mail attachement with (JPG FILE).

Hi Everyone . Thanks so much for your contributions. I was forced to check on somebody called Ahmed Izaka who sent me a RFQ for Ginger . Hence I have discovered that he is a scammer who has been online to defraud innocent and honest people . Please keep exposing these scammers .- Sulaiman Yusuf.

Your company will confirm the quantity to be supply per monthly instalmental order considering your productive power , this will be confirm in your original proforma invoice for the approval of the Foundation For Humanitarian Affairs-(FFHA),till the end of this 1 year contract.

This contract is for under 1year contract supply and partial shipment is allowed doing the contract.

The payment terms is 100%T/T of the total contract value after signing the contract with the Foundation For Humanitarian Affairs-(FFHA) at their regional payment office in Turkey.

Thanks while we are waiting to receieve your prompt and possitive respondurgently.

to info Hello, I am the Co-Founder of IMR-Partners and we specialize in the international sale and export of Ukraine agriculture products such as corn, grain, oils. We were contacted by a Mr Mohammed Mustafa (CEO) AL-MUSTAFA TRADING COMPANY 46 Rue Du Casanblaca Lome-Togo West Africa Tel.+228-22522413 Fax;+228-22522362 Mobil;+228-93714309 skype;almustafa.import. This individual has used your company name AFFA in reference to a maize (corn) business deal and we need to verify that this individual is an official partner and/or is working on-behalf of your organization. Any information is deeply appreciated.

We express our hope for further cooperation and look forward to your reply,

There are a couple of warning signs about affha.org that indicate that it is not genuine.

Firstly, the domain was registered on 23rd June 2014, however the website claims that they have been in operation since at least 2012.Secondly, the text from the website appears to have been copied from fadoa.org (*that* appears to be a legitimate organisation). One had clearly copied from the other.

Those two things lead me to believe that affha.org is a scam and should be avoided.

I have the same emails, claiming they need to buy Coffee Beans up to 30 000 Metric Tones. After a lengthy investigation I noted it was Fraud. The Conversation began on the 15th of September following an enquiry on Trade Boss a B2B Website.

We received an e-mail from this Mohammed Mustafa looking for baby diapers to expand through Africa, by a tender placed by AFFHA. Same names: this Hannah and PROF. EDWARD ACHOU TIAGBA. I was skeptical from the beginning, because this Edward always seem to know immediately what I told this Mustafa and vice versa. Beside, for an official tender I found it remarkably how urgent everything was and how little they informed about our products and way of working. But somehow the website, documents and e-mails looked actually okay. We bought the story for some days, but they starting requesting money through Western Union, stalked us on every number they could find and all of a sudden they wanted us to show up in Togo to sign this contract and requested a copy of my passport. When I refused, again the solution was money. That’s when I got convinced this was not real anymore, so I started googling and I found this website. I checked out fadoa.org as Conrad Longmore said, and indeed, it’s clearly a copy.Seems I’ve been fooled and made lot of effort for nothing :)